I worked my way through college at my university computer lab (97-01). We went ALL IN on zip drives, so that’s what I used as my high capacity (lol) storage for longer than I should have (through maybe 2004-ish when the last drive died). Still have a bunch of disks around here somewhere. So…soon after that was my switch to thumb drives.
Hence the “poor man’s.”
Trump only wishes he were that smart.
Wouldn’t expect anything less from a poor man’s President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.
Not going to make a top level comment since this may be considered sort of a tangent, but there is chatter about lots of White House staff asking for pardons, since they aren’t necessarily immune. The thing is, once someone gets a pardon, and they no longer face prosecution, there is no danger of self-incrimination, and the 5th Amendment right to not speak largely disappears. I.e. they could be compelled to testify against Trump.
So does Trump throw all these people under the bus by making them face criminal prosecution for his crimes, or does he make them immune and increase the risk (even if only reputational) to himself? Investigators could easily offer immunity in exchange for testimony even without a pardon. I think we know which he’ll choose, but it leaves both sides pitted against one another.
The snake may be about to eat itself.
It’s an unanswered question, but the SCOTUS immunity ruling makes it mostly moot anyway. A President can’t be charged with crimes related to “official business.” Which specific acts count as official vs unofficial depends on the interpretation of a judge/justice, and probably gets extremely messy and inconsistent, which is why the ruling is considered problematic by most.
They can NOT pardon to protect themselves from impeachment.
MS giving HB a good deal to try to make yet another storefront relevant.
There are bad faith questions[1], (at least somewhat) self-answering questions[2], and poorly asked questions[3]. (Edit: this comm has rules. These and others are covered in the sidebar, It’s not about being too stupid a question, it’s about being appropriate for this community)
[1] “Are you still cheating on your spouse?” type questions that are meant to evoke a response rather than ask a real question that deserves an answer.
[2] is a little harder to define, but I have definitely seen a few where even the smallest amount of thought about what is being asked would make the answer obvious. (edit: I hope people aren’t just drive-by downvoting this type, but I sort of understand why they might)
[3] includes questions that have so many answers depending on factors not specified that they’re impossible to answer without writing a book covering every assumption that goes into each possibility.
Research suggests a T-Rex would need 50-100k kCal/day. Even if it ate a whole cow before starting, it would be hurting a week in.
Maybe it could survive the month, but would probably be severely malnourished at that point.
In any event, there is no mention of what happens if I fail to kill it. Does the experiment just end and I go home empty handed, or does the magic hut disappear and we fight it out to the death?
It never existed.
If you make two beautiful paintings, and sell one for $1000, then decide to sell the other, but nobody wants it for more than $500, you didn’t “lose” the $500 difference.
Maybe you even told people you had another $1000 painting, then only got $500 in cash for it, so your reported net wealth dropped by $500.
At worst, you actually paid $1000, then sold for $500, but even then, the difference didn’t disappear, you just transferred it to the original owner by overpaying, or to the new owner by undercharging if the price goes back up.
Time is money.
It’s not like expensive convenience has a monopoly. If you don’t want to pay more, do it yourself.
Crimson Skies with modern planes would be quite different than Crimson Skies.
Would Ace Combat scratch that itch? It’s quite arcade-y. Or for a more indie take on the same formula, I had a lot of fun with Project Wingman. Neither has the same kind of pulp adventure storyline, but that may be as close as we have right now.
Am I out of touch? No, it’s Valve who is wrong.
Production hasn’t stopped, it has merely been paused forever.
Going to need a little more info. Is there a particular game you’re interested in?
Tim should just start his own store where he can set the rules and let the market decide whether or not they like the disclosures.
If he’s right, his store would be a dominant force, and … what’s that? He’s been trying that for the better part of a decade and nobody buys anything there?
In your face, Neil Armstrong!
Lobster.
I’d continue to live my normal life during the day, but transform every night to sleep, and don’t age during that time. Hell, any time I’m not doing something that requires a human body, just push pause on the aging process for a few hours. Careful application could get me an extra ~40-50% lifespan for free.
The lobster’s biggest problem is always having to grow new shells. If every transformation puts me back exactly where I left off, that could be an issue, but with a part-time human to stock my own tank/pool, getting enough to eat as a lobster to get the energy to do that shouldn’t be an insurmountable hurdle.
In hindsight, it was irresponsible to watch Robocop as a 10-year-old.
NGL, a boring 1998 life sim would get a buy from me.